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outskirts of east jerusalem human rights groups have accused the army of using the child as a human shield defense for children international palestine has posted a video on you tube that shows helmeted is raided border policeman removing this young palestinian who is identified as mohammad asif interior from the army jeep and forcing him to stand both sides then with handcuffed hands raised above his head human rights groups have released a statement saying that the outrage that israeli soldiers continue to use palestinian children in this way as human shields with impunity the claim is that the teen was deliberately exposed to danger after he had been taken into custody and the israeli army spokesperson however has said that the move was to calm the violence especially after four hundred palestinian protesters attacked an israeli border police vehicle for almost four hours earlier this week palestinians mocked the annual palestinian prisoners day and this was possible the palestinian national council back in one nine hundred seventy four as a means of consolidating efforts to support palestinian
outskirts of east jerusalem human rights groups have accused the army of using the child as a human shield defense for children international palestine has posted a video on you tube that shows helmeted is raided border policeman removing this young palestinian who is identified as mohammad asif interior from the army jeep and forcing him to stand both sides then with handcuffed hands raised above his head human rights groups have released a statement saying that the outrage that israeli...
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is knowing that your nationality something that you cannot control is the sole basis of that ordeal defense lawyers say what they deal with now is collective punishment by the u.s. government based on nationality which is a clear violation of international law when pressed for answers the administration the state department specifically which was in charge of those transfers they point the finger at congress at the moratorium that the lawmakers put in place that the defense authorization act that they passed but lawyers say those are just excuses our clients are coming to grips with cold the me will die is going to not because the state is unable to transfer but because unwilling to do so the transfer of structures are difficult for example the choir the secretary of defense to personally certify that a receiving state had taken steps to ensure that a prisoner can never threaten the united states in the future whatever threaten might mean in that context. and obviously no state can guarantee that a future event will or will not occur but that was the point the point was to discourage transf
is knowing that your nationality something that you cannot control is the sole basis of that ordeal defense lawyers say what they deal with now is collective punishment by the u.s. government based on nationality which is a clear violation of international law when pressed for answers the administration the state department specifically which was in charge of those transfers they point the finger at congress at the moratorium that the lawmakers put in place that the defense authorization act...
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is not clear how they continue to work on it if they shut down the office that was doing that also defense lawyers present at this commission hearing saw the response as an attempt to water down the core issue to walk it down in legal details which seem to have no effect on the outcome of the indefinite detention that they're asking for or justifying is under the laws of war and in the states united states mind that that. that war ends at the end of hostilities against two al qaeda and associated forces well what does that mean that's indefinite that is the epitome of indefinite some here have voiced the idea that whatever is keeping most of those people there has nothing to do with the law but more with the fear that even those who had been wrongfully captured and held there for years for no reason have weakness so much at that prison including torture and other forms of humiliation the fear that the u.s. may have created its own enemies there you have dozens of people cleared for release and still languishing in prison so they may have fallen victim not just to their wrongful capture but
is not clear how they continue to work on it if they shut down the office that was doing that also defense lawyers present at this commission hearing saw the response as an attempt to water down the core issue to walk it down in legal details which seem to have no effect on the outcome of the indefinite detention that they're asking for or justifying is under the laws of war and in the states united states mind that that. that war ends at the end of hostilities against two al qaeda and...
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unwilling to do so the transfer of structures are difficult for example the choir the secretary of defense to personally certify that receiving state had taken steps to ensure that a prisoner can ever threaten the united states in the future whatever threaten might mean in that context. and obviously no state can guarantee that a future event will or will not occur but that was the point the point was to discourage transfers from guantanamo citizens of forty eight countries in total have been held in guantanamo since the opening of the prison in two thousand and two the majority of them were from afghanistan and over the years most of them have been transferred back to afghanistan the second largest group of captives were from saudi arabia then yemen then pakistan but you see the scope of the manhunt it included forty eight countries as of now it's not just yemeni nationals who are stuck in this legal limbo but the rest as well michael williams. senior advisor for guantanamo policy in the office of the legal advisor at the u.s. department of state testified before a human rights commission
unwilling to do so the transfer of structures are difficult for example the choir the secretary of defense to personally certify that receiving state had taken steps to ensure that a prisoner can ever threaten the united states in the future whatever threaten might mean in that context. and obviously no state can guarantee that a future event will or will not occur but that was the point the point was to discourage transfers from guantanamo citizens of forty eight countries in total have been...
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tired army medical corps officer and a former senior adviser to the defense department says it might not be long before the strike turns fatal. typically people get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that it in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship were poorer with the hunger strikers and being able to discuss the terms of their protest the this is a they if they have it also. really overrides their autonomy which is very important in medicine we accept that as one of our ethical principles so that by and large most organizations across the world feel that it is not acceptable and in this particular case what it does not help resolve their grievances and help resolve the conflict that we're having between the detainees and the authorities. now allege the violatio
tired army medical corps officer and a former senior adviser to the defense department says it might not be long before the strike turns fatal. typically people get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that it in fact...
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department of defense. said we've reviewed their cases they're not a threat to the us and we don't want to keep them but they sitting one time oh because of their citizenship and most are from yemen and our argument is we don't trust the unity government to be responsible for but that's the same government we said the unity government gives us permission to conduct drone strikes and kill people so on one hand we trust the human a government to let us kill people but we don't trust the human a government to take their own citizens back so basically the administration seems to have no real interest in shutting this down as you just said that we've authorized millions of dollars to expand it and keep it in place what are we supposed to do to help these prisoners who are killing themselves right now to get their message across it's unfortunate that it takes those kind of drastic steps to get people to pay attention when you spend a decade of your life in confinement because your citizenship i've got a petition
department of defense. said we've reviewed their cases they're not a threat to the us and we don't want to keep them but they sitting one time oh because of their citizenship and most are from yemen and our argument is we don't trust the unity government to be responsible for but that's the same government we said the unity government gives us permission to conduct drone strikes and kill people so on one hand we trust the human a government to let us kill people but we don't trust the human a...
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responsibility for allowing and contributing to the spread of torture now david remes is a human rights and defense attorney representing a detainee he joined us earlier with the latest. well we don't know exactly what happened all we have is the military's word for what happened which i don't take at face value but according to reports the military moved most of the men who were in the most populous camp camp six which was a communal living arrangement into camp five which is an isolation cell arrangement they gave as a reason that they couldn't monitor the men in camp six because the men had covered the cameras but that doesn't wash because that situation has been going on for two or three months now i think that they're just trying to break the hunger strike and they picked a particularly brutal way to do it so the way i understand it military shows up in riot gear they essentially storm you know so basically that's not what happened but we're not really sure what happened do we know how many prisoners were involved well i do think it's clear that they moved the detainees and i do think it's cle
responsibility for allowing and contributing to the spread of torture now david remes is a human rights and defense attorney representing a detainee he joined us earlier with the latest. well we don't know exactly what happened all we have is the military's word for what happened which i don't take at face value but according to reports the military moved most of the men who were in the most populous camp camp six which was a communal living arrangement into camp five which is an isolation cell...
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japan seeing more missile defense contractors throughout the region receiving more money north korea is getting at least overtures from u.s. and south korea that they will get more. play at the negotiating table and china has so far managed to maintain north korea stopping it from time toppling so everyone has gotten what they want. out of this latest ploy so i think from here what we're going to see is at least some sort of attempt at some sort of talks but how fruitful those talks will be is i think another matter entirely when you talk about hopeful talks and hopeful fruitful talks so james i'm running very low on time a very quickly though if i may china is warning that a fourth nuclear bomb test in north korea could be imminent what is the north trying to prove at this point now well again those promises aren't worth the paper they're not written on that we've heard this rhetoric before so far nothing has materialized so i don't think we should believe it until we see it but at any rate i think it just has to be seen as part of the of the game that's being played right now anywa
japan seeing more missile defense contractors throughout the region receiving more money north korea is getting at least overtures from u.s. and south korea that they will get more. play at the negotiating table and china has so far managed to maintain north korea stopping it from time toppling so everyone has gotten what they want. out of this latest ploy so i think from here what we're going to see is at least some sort of attempt at some sort of talks but how fruitful those talks will be is...
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circumstance when someone is in a hospital and has of the bill dated condition that lowers their body's defense mechanisms experts say the problem is a result of doctors prescribing antibiotics too often and patients taking them and appropriately they ask the doctor to give them an antibiotic because they think they'll feel better in some time just to satisfy the pace. a doctor will give an antibiotic which is not appropriate and that selects for the growth selective growth of these resistant microbes the centers for disease control is calling on hospitals to take action to detect and prevent cases of superbugs and so once you identify that there is what do you do we once we had in five days a cod we needed to cause a physician who was taking care of sufficient and with interaction. and the patient has to be in isolation that means washing your hands thoroughly when you go into a room and when you leave a room wearing gloves protective equipment down is when you know someone is infected with the rising rates of superbugs experts say doctors nurses and patients must take action now to prevent th
circumstance when someone is in a hospital and has of the bill dated condition that lowers their body's defense mechanisms experts say the problem is a result of doctors prescribing antibiotics too often and patients taking them and appropriately they ask the doctor to give them an antibiotic because they think they'll feel better in some time just to satisfy the pace. a doctor will give an antibiotic which is not appropriate and that selects for the growth selective growth of these resistant...
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according to the iraqi defense ministry the truth is that they beat the. government in the meanwhile the protesters say that they were simply staging an. open fire along a preceding. bomb. in the southern baghdad neighborhood of. tens of thousands of iraq. the area. again i knew mr noir amahl to be in recent months now if you. are doing their minority community. do them from job also completing the. anti-terrorism laws that have been specifically. in the last few years and. violence dozens of. bombings. last week because. a lot action the trials on the. channel there. and the runoff. election. in the. problems. are and will. very much and i'm. going to come. now. and jim brann of the stop the war coalition told us a bit earlier in the program that simply put the ongoing violence in iraq is an extension of the devastating war the level of violence has never. gone back to what it was ten years ago after the war and talking about it's never return to that there's been terrible periods of around two thousand and six and against that things are much better but
according to the iraqi defense ministry the truth is that they beat the. government in the meanwhile the protesters say that they were simply staging an. open fire along a preceding. bomb. in the southern baghdad neighborhood of. tens of thousands of iraq. the area. again i knew mr noir amahl to be in recent months now if you. are doing their minority community. do them from job also completing the. anti-terrorism laws that have been specifically. in the last few years and. violence dozens of....
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its non-lethal aid to syrian rebels to more than one hundred and twenty million dollars this off the defense secretary chuck hagel announced two hundred troops will be deployed in neighboring jordan he said the force including logistical specialist and operational plan is the core of a possible large contingent to be sent to the area if chemical weapons in syria are under threat dr cohen hallinan from foreign policy in focus things washington's support for the opposition leaves no room for negotiation u.s. has talked about the fact they want to diplomatic resolution but the diplomatic resolute resolution is regime change so by supporting the infiltration of insurgents from saudi arabia from turkey from from oman from from libya essentially of iraq as was done in afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. by doing that you essentially make it a life or death struggle with the assad regime and so i think by putting these troops here i think what you're doing is that you are short of reinforcing the insurgency and you're taking very clear sides in this in the civil war inside syria am i thin
its non-lethal aid to syrian rebels to more than one hundred and twenty million dollars this off the defense secretary chuck hagel announced two hundred troops will be deployed in neighboring jordan he said the force including logistical specialist and operational plan is the core of a possible large contingent to be sent to the area if chemical weapons in syria are under threat dr cohen hallinan from foreign policy in focus things washington's support for the opposition leaves no room for...
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about nuclear weapons is that and you know despite the expense many ways they offer a cheap form of defense compared with conventional g. forces now north korea hasn't got the in the economic wherewithal to come anywhere near the americans in terms of you know conventional arms and so nuclear weapons and they don't really need very much then you need them to be effective all they need is to have been there to do you agree that the americans think that they could retaliate if if if so clapped so it's quite close first on the korean point of view and that would go up to three of us south korea and japan is activity like warships and just interceptor missiles are all being pointed at korea is that all going to temporary do you believe. it's all going to to ten to ten point north korea. no i mean yes i mean not that i think the the actual crisis is now sort of winding down their merican follow ups the ante with this current range of august military exercises in order to stop a new south korean government from opening up in gauging the north. africa and he promised in the intellectual campaign s
about nuclear weapons is that and you know despite the expense many ways they offer a cheap form of defense compared with conventional g. forces now north korea hasn't got the in the economic wherewithal to come anywhere near the americans in terms of you know conventional arms and so nuclear weapons and they don't really need very much then you need them to be effective all they need is to have been there to do you agree that the americans think that they could retaliate if if if so clapped so...
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people and if they pay them putting them at risk than are done it sounds a lot of defense among far to go all right had talked to john price professor of mechanical engineering thank you very much for your time on the story. the explosion in texas came soon after two of the events that shocked america the boston marathon bomb blasts and also a mail poisonings letters laced with the deadly poison ricin was sent to president obama and two other officials the packages were intercepted by the authorities and a man has been arrested in mississippi in connection with the case police say the suspect is well known as if we can lead to right it'll make this incident has brought on welcome echoes of the post nine eleven attacks which killed several people so well government offices across the u.s. have been logged on to other suspicious packages. as to details what we know so far and what the f.b.i. and secret service has disclosed is that a letter addressed to president barack obama contained a substance. that is considered a poisonous substance that according to preliminary tests the letter th
people and if they pay them putting them at risk than are done it sounds a lot of defense among far to go all right had talked to john price professor of mechanical engineering thank you very much for your time on the story. the explosion in texas came soon after two of the events that shocked america the boston marathon bomb blasts and also a mail poisonings letters laced with the deadly poison ricin was sent to president obama and two other officials the packages were intercepted by the...
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quickly ask you the group of congressman says that the surviving suspect to be denied a different a defense attorney and he should be declared an enemy combatant competent and shipped to guantanamo what do you make of that well it's very difficult to go against this horrible propaganda in the united states that draws wrong conclusions from. there we're going to end up with thousands of cameras in public places we're going to end up with the f.b.i. doing even more of its ill considered preemptive targeting and and making these boasts that they can prevent which is not true it's actually the opposite and in fact we're also going to we're we're going to probably see. terrible conclusions formed and public safety exception by the way preexisted nine eleven the. we should have been able to interview very in a very limited way without an attorney in order to prevent future deaths the reason when that was disregarded after nine eleven and actually for several years it led the us to overreact with the commissions and what cheney and john yoo did which was take the us to the dark side of torture and
quickly ask you the group of congressman says that the surviving suspect to be denied a different a defense attorney and he should be declared an enemy combatant competent and shipped to guantanamo what do you make of that well it's very difficult to go against this horrible propaganda in the united states that draws wrong conclusions from. there we're going to end up with thousands of cameras in public places we're going to end up with the f.b.i. doing even more of its ill considered...
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on defense is now only being achieved by three nato members and. the reports now from brussels the rift between alliance members is growing. the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and warned its partners against the danger of defense spending cuts as we've already seen especially from its european partners this opinion was also echoed by go way u.s. defense secretary leon panetta he said that if this trend does continue that the alliance could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevance so there's the question of whether it will actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and opinion also . echoed by the former u.s. defense secretary robert gates the problem that nato is facing when it comes to budget is no small matter if we just look back to more than a decade ago it. had a goal of having sixty thousand troops for instance available for battle in the so-called in so-called core however today we see that these battle groups range from about fifteen hundred to tw
on defense is now only being achieved by three nato members and. the reports now from brussels the rift between alliance members is growing. the nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen had actually come out and warned its partners against the danger of defense spending cuts as we've already seen especially from its european partners this opinion was also echoed by go way u.s. defense secretary leon panetta he said that if this trend does continue that the alliance could be in danger of...
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defense secretary robert gates he said that if this trend does continue to be alliance it could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevant so there's the question of whether the actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and there are signals coming from the u.s. that they are not keen on continuing the kind of partnership with this sort of inequality and also looking at the u.s. his own budget cost as well as its shift in priority especially after we've heard that pivot to asia so they have their own concerns so they're questioning the kind of the new line of the kind of partnership that they have especially with european countries moving forward they're also facing some lack of enthusiasm from european members of just germany for instance was very eager to contribute to any military operation so again under the nato secretary general has come out saying that the capability of nato will be impacted and there is a question of critics on the actual relevance of the alliance. there's not much enthusiasm from its members to contribu
defense secretary robert gates he said that if this trend does continue to be alliance it could be in danger of moving into what he called a collective military irrelevant so there's the question of whether the actually still be relevant given the decrease in its capabilities and there are signals coming from the u.s. that they are not keen on continuing the kind of partnership with this sort of inequality and also looking at the u.s. his own budget cost as well as its shift in priority...
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the sounds that long of a promising european defense spending which leaves washington picking up the majority of the top four nato outs russians a crisis of unity. loss of u.s. officials admits the glory hunger strike of gone tunnel bay now includes overhaul of the detainees that the wars have insisted the figure is. all along. international news life this is our see with me your leisure paula thanks for joining us according to investigators the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings says it's america's wars in iraq and afghanistan that led him and his brother to carry out the worst u.s. based attack since nine eleven after questioning nineteen year old john hartson knives police believe the bombers were acting on their own initiative will cling to any foreign terrorist group all season as the citric and i reports now from boston . as the nineteen year old boston bombing suspect joe hart's are naiads condition improves from serious to fair he's beginning to reveal information to investigators from what we're hearing on the ground according to officials certain has said tha
the sounds that long of a promising european defense spending which leaves washington picking up the majority of the top four nato outs russians a crisis of unity. loss of u.s. officials admits the glory hunger strike of gone tunnel bay now includes overhaul of the detainees that the wars have insisted the figure is. all along. international news life this is our see with me your leisure paula thanks for joining us according to investigators the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombings...
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provisions have been passed and repassed over and over again and they still stand then the new national defense authorization act contains a provision which allows for indefinite detention without due process at the discretion of the president the statute has no temporal or geographic limitations and can be huge by future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield experts say with laws like this once they're adopted they're very difficult to reverse as far as u.s. actions overseas part of the nation's response to terror policies like torture or drone strikes which target. as suspects but also kill civilians overseas terrorism draws strength from the adoption of extra legal violence as a counter measure but it's yet unclear how much security people draw from giving up their rights in washington i'm going to shake them. up next artie's and as the speak so with the rushes of former long serving finance minister in the interview in just a moment. i . know what things are going to republican texas and be a whole lot better off than the state of texas texas has got its o
provisions have been passed and repassed over and over again and they still stand then the new national defense authorization act contains a provision which allows for indefinite detention without due process at the discretion of the president the statute has no temporal or geographic limitations and can be huge by future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield experts say with laws like this once they're adopted they're very difficult to reverse as far as u.s....
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on defense. the organization was created to counter the soviet union with soviet union long gone it has to keep easy over the years nato has gone from being a defense organization to becoming an offensive force with a missions that go far beyond north america and europe they refer to those ambitions as out of area operations which have included of ghana's stand in libya now part of nato the very powerful part which includes the u.s. the u.k. and france pretty much see those out of area operations as the future of the organization but the zest and enthusiasm to go global doesn't sync well with all twenty eight members of the alliance who know they will have to foot the bill the lack of consensus showed when germany by far europe's strongest nation refused to provide resources for nato bombings two years ago back then nato has gone beyond its un mandate which was to protect civilians it has effectively created a power vacuum in which all kinds of extremists have flourished since then not to mention
on defense. the organization was created to counter the soviet union with soviet union long gone it has to keep easy over the years nato has gone from being a defense organization to becoming an offensive force with a missions that go far beyond north america and europe they refer to those ambitions as out of area operations which have included of ghana's stand in libya now part of nato the very powerful part which includes the u.s. the u.k. and france pretty much see those out of area...
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in a post nine eleven america washington has taken wide reaching measures and defense friend spending has hit unprecedented levels because officials say that's what was needed to keep america safe the department of homeland security was created along with many other law enforcement agencies the patriot act was passed sent up a very complex and far reaching surveillance system which includes c.c.t.v. cameras in major cities facial recognition iris scanning cyber surveillance and officials say this was all to keep americans safe as was the passage of the national defense authorization act in addition to all the measures that have been taken domestically over the past twelve years america has waged two wars overseas that have cost the country more than two trillion dollars but after the events that unfolded at the bar of boston marathon bombings many critics believe that washington has spent a large amount of money and wasted a lot of resources and at the end of the day it has not kept americans any safer this illusion that technology is going to save us that filling our skies with drain
in a post nine eleven america washington has taken wide reaching measures and defense friend spending has hit unprecedented levels because officials say that's what was needed to keep america safe the department of homeland security was created along with many other law enforcement agencies the patriot act was passed sent up a very complex and far reaching surveillance system which includes c.c.t.v. cameras in major cities facial recognition iris scanning cyber surveillance and officials say...